AMY BERNSTEIN // CV
Born Atlanta, GA
Lives and works in Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2004 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017 A Lover's Race, Nationale, Portland, OR
2015 The Liminalists, with Patrick Kelly, Nationale, Portland, OR
2014 Notes, Nationale, Portland, OR
2011 New Games, Stumptown Downtown, Portland, OR
2009 A. Bernstein, Stumptown Division, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 I AM THIS, Art by Oregon Jewish Artists, The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
A Lot A Lot, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, Sweden
2016 Portland Museum of Modern Art/Houseguest, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR
Salon: Portland2016 Biennial, curated by Michelle Grabner, Disjecta, Portland, OR
and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
2015 Testable Predictions, Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland, OR
2012 Collider, Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Portland, OR
Highlighter, Nationale, Portland, OR
Perceptual Control, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 Art & Leisure, Colonel Summer Tennis Courts, Portland, OR
2010 Re:Port, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
Bubble Letters, Car Hole Gallery, Portland, OR
Dump Art, Berlin, Germany
2009 Neverending Neo in a West Coast Lite, Stumptown Belmont, Portland, OR
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Notes, exhibition catalog, Nationale, Portland, OR
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Barry Johnson, Considering the Art Gym's Abstractions, Oregon ArtsWatch
2015 Graham Bell & Jessica Pierson, In The Dark of Space, A Light: Amy Bernstein & Patrick Kelly at Nationale, Noise & Color PDX
Ryland Quillen, Saturday Selects: Week of October 26, 2015, Sight Unseen
Featured on WomenArtists.org
Enid Spitz, North Portland Gets a New Art Infusion, Willamette Week
2014 Ryan Fish, Interview: Amy Bernstein, Beautiful Savage
John Motley, March 2014 Previews, The Oregonian
Jeff Jahn, Weekend picks, PORT
Eva Lake, Interview with Artist Amy Bernstein, Art Focus, KBOO FM
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2017 Arteles Silence Awareness Existence Residency, Finland
Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR
2012 Project Grant, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
2010 Short Form Arts Writers Grant, Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation
WRITING
2013 When the Walls are White, Appendix Space Project catalog
2012 Sassafrass, Weekday
2011 The Strip Mauling of Sanctity, YA5
2010 Detritrustus, Dump Art catalog
Interview with Jonathan Lasker for L.A. Louver’s catalogue of Recent Paintings
2006–present contributing critic for online art blog, PORT
REPRESENTATION
Nationale, Portland, OR